It now says dealers who sell a fatal dose of fentanyl to minors can be charged with felony homicide, basically, accidentally causing death while engaged in a crime.
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A bill under which drug dealers could be convicted of murder if they sell fatal doses – an idea that failed two years in a row – is on the move in the state Senate, if in a much more limited form.
The Senate Courts of Justice Committee on Monday approved a major revision of the measure.
It now says dealers who sell a fatal dose of fentanyl to minors can be charged with felony homicide, basically, accidentally causing death while engaged in a crime. They could be punished in the same way as second-degree murder, with a prison term of up to 40 years.
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